Aggression Towards Health Care Workers in Spain: A Multi-facility Study to Evaluate the Distribution of Growing Violence Among Professionals, Health Facilities and Departments

The role of aggressions suffered by healthcare workers as predictors of burnout

“…2008). This is shown by the results in our study, especially in very complex hospitals and in areas like emergencies and psychiatry (Gascón et al. 2009b).…”

“…2010). Aggression Questionnaire (Gascón et al. 2009b) contained descriptions of various forms of aggression, in line with what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal.…”

“…2008). Psychiatry is not the only place in which violence takes place; in large hospitals, it is superseded in the emergency area (Gascón et al. 2009b).…”

Workplace Violence Against Nursing Students and Nurses: An Italian Experience

“…There may also be a selection bias, as in the European NEXT study, where there was a disproportionate prevalence of male Italian nurses (Camerino, Estryn-Behar, Conway, van Der Heijden, & Hasselhorn, 2008). The present study had a high participation rate (94% of the nurses and 99% of the nursing students) compared with other similar studies on this topic-24% (Gascón et al, 2009), 33% (Winstanley & Whittington, 2004), 36% (Hodgson et al, 2004)thereby increasing our confidence in the results. However, although this study was conducted in multiple sites with a large sample, its results cannot be generalized to all hospitals and nursing schools.…”

Patient and visitor violence in the general hospital, occurrence, staff interventions and consequences: a cross‐sectional survey

“…The findings confirm existing evidence that HCS in general hospitals experience high levels of PVV, in particular of verbal violence. Hahn et al (2008) and Gascon et al (2009) also described the high level of verbal violence HCS encountered over 12 months. Other research has also reported that younger HCS are more exposed to PVV (Whittington et al 1996, Jackson & Ashley 2005.…”